Originally Posted by gudel
this whole add thing is overblown. when I was a kid we never heard of add or kids on ritalin. we were outside the house, doing some activity. everyone paid attention in our class and do the work as assigned.
now everything has to be on medication. i guess you have to blame it on some disease or some brain chemical malfunction.
Well, going to school in the '50s, I knew at least one kid who had trouble paying attention in class. he used to draw cartoons in math. Not only that, numerous teachers in a couple of schools consistently noted that he had problems with dyslexia and acalculia as well. Did he go outside? Yeah, and pedaled wayyy beyond the bounds his parents set.
But then, I never thought of myself as disabled, rather differently abled. My mother called it "Rabbit Mind". My brother and I could have conversations that would leave anyone else in the dust as we fluently jumped from subject to subject with three or four subjects skipped inbetween.